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Re: Facebook says it will stop operating in Europe if regulators don’t back down

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Sure - people would get mad. I agree. But it seems like they wouldn’t stay mad for long and there wouldn’t be any significant economic impact of them just switching to other services. This is not the same as say if Apple suddenly stopped selling iPhones and Macs or Microsoft stopped providing Azure services.

Only EU govs have an axe to grind against Facebook because they have to not make GDPR look like a joke. The end-users, they still want to use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. And they will be quiet vocal if those things stop working.

This is an interesting perspective. I had the sense that people in the EU were not very positive about American businesses anymore, but you seem to be suggesting this is overblown.

Re: Facebook says it will stop operating in Europe if regulators don’t back down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only EU govs have an axe to grind against Facebook because they have to not make GDPR look like a joke. The end-users, they still want to use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. And they will be quiet vocal if those things stop working.

This is an interesting perspective. I had the sense that people in the EU were not very positive about American businesses anymore, but you seem to be suggesting this is overblown.

It absolutely is. Despite the numerous attempts to #deletefacebook nothing has changed, Facebook now has ~9m advertisers compared to ~4m three years ago.

The fact of the matter is that people and businesses rely on Facebook and they won’t have the time or patience for an explanation beyond them from the governments out to get FB.

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